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The latest privacy advocate to speak out against Google's Web mail service is California state senator Liz Figueroa, who is drafting legislation to block the free Gmail offering. Figueroa, a Democrat, said she believes Gmail's e-mail content scanning reduces users' privacy. She told the E-Commerce T...

Continuing to refine its business in a changing marketplace, IBM has announced it will sell rights to its PowerPC microprocessors to San Diego, California-based Applied Micro Circuits for $227 million. The all-cash deal includes intellectual-property licenses as well as the rights to the IBM PowerPC...

Intel has unveiled a new family of chips based on its XScale technology, which is geared toward balancing low power consumption with high-performance processing. The new PXA27x processors reportedly can handle multiple wireless broadband standards, such as 3G, WiFi and WiMAX, while also sporting eno...

AMD has announced the settlement of patent claims with Intergraph in an agreement that calls for AMD to pay Intergraph $10 million, plus 2 percent of profits from its microprocessor sales for three years. The maximum payment from AMD is to be capped at $25 million. In return, Intergraph will grant A...

With its recent acquisitions of Ximian and SuSE Linux, Novell has taken on the challenge of promoting enterprise-class Linux solutions. The company is not simply trumpeting the benefits of Linux to clients. To prove the enterprise Linux concept, it is adopting Linux as a preferred platform for its o...

Microsoft has settled a long-simmering patent-infringement complaint with InterTrust Technology, agreeing to pay $440 million to license all of the firm's digital rights management (DRM) technology. Settlement of the patent claims, which were first filed in 2001, is just the latest move by Microsoft...

When the inventors of the Internet created the technology, they never envisioned that it would become so ubiquitous -- or that it would serve as a way for malicious hackers to spread worms, trojans and other malware. They aimed for openness and functionality, which they achieved, but with that succe...

As more U.S. firms contemplate whether to send work overseas, a new twist is developing that could make the outsourcing debate even more animated. India-based software firm Infosys Technologies has announced that it will be opening a business-consulting practice in the United States. The company exp...

In a bid to lure IBM mainframe customers, Microsoft said it would work with Micro Focus International to promote the migration of applications from mainframes to Windows servers. The two companies said many organizations recognize the value of legacy applications running on mainframes but also want ...

Since the 1970s, Latin American currency markets have been almost synonymous with high risk. But sparked by the spread of free-trade agreements and regional trading blocs -- such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), its pending successor the Free Trade Association of the Americas (FTA...

Several peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, including Kazaa and eDonkey, are bracing for an anticipated attack by the latest variant of the Netsky-Q worm, the latest example of virus writers taking direct aim at specific companies and Web sites. As of Thursday morning, both networks were still operating, a...

In part 1 of this interview, F-Secure director of antivirus research Mikko Hypponen spoke about getting his start in computer security 13 years ago and the changes he has seen over the years. In this continuation of his chat with the E-Commerce Times, Hypponen talks about what it might take to nab m...

Since its announcement last week that it will begin offering a free Web mail service called Gmail, Google has been blasted by privacy advocates. They say the service's features set a dangerous precedent in its collection of user information. On Tuesday, 28 electronic privacy organizations sent an op...

Taking another step into the outsourcing fray, IBM has agreed to purchase an India-based business processing company that handles back-office support and call centers for several U.S. firms, including Amazon.com. IBM said the 6,000 employees of Daksh eServices will become part of its business consul...

Amid this year's ongoing plague of viruses and worms, there has been much discussion about virus creators, antivirus software developers and frequent virus targets like Microsoft and The SCO Group. But one important group still toils in near obscurity: the virus hunters. One of the field's most a...